CCIE Contract Job Trends in London

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 338 389
Rank change year-on-year +11 +51 +129
Contract jobs citing CCIE 34 42 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.97% 1.07% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 30 57
10th Percentile £366 £350 £252
25th Percentile £459 £361 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £663 £594 £658
90th Percentile £686 £775 £738
England median daily rate £561 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +2.05% +10.00% -8.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.25 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

CCIE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,502 3,926 5,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.45% 24.41% 22.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,350 2,573 3,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £355
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £759 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 57 87
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.03 £19.34
25th Percentile - £22.00 £25.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.29 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.11% -41.29% +22.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £66.30
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.20 £81.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -53.43% -1.42% +21.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing CCIE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for CCIE in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCIE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCIE

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCIE in London over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCIE in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCIE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCIE

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE within the London region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +7 9 £640 -0.47% 4
West London -4 2 £405 -19.00%
South London - 1 £600 -
East London - 1 £675 -
CCIE
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) MS Visio
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.76%) AWS
2 3 (8.82%) Azure
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.88%) Serverless
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (2.94%) IaaS
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.94%) PaaS
4 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (55.88%) BGP
2 17 (50.00%) Firewall
3 16 (47.06%) OSPF
4 15 (44.12%) Network Security
5 8 (23.53%) WAN
6 7 (20.59%) DNS
6 7 (20.59%) Multicast
6 7 (20.59%) Wireless
7 6 (17.65%) Ethernet VPN
7 6 (17.65%) LAN
7 6 (17.65%) MPLS
7 6 (17.65%) Radio Access Network
7 6 (17.65%) VXLAN
8 5 (14.71%) SD-WAN
8 5 (14.71%) Unicast
8 5 (14.71%) VPN
9 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
10 3 (8.82%) BIG-IP
10 3 (8.82%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (8.82%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 10 (29.41%) Telecoms
2 8 (23.53%) Finance
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Banking
4 3 (8.82%) Investment Banking
4 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Network Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Architect
3 7 (20.59%) Network Architect
3 7 (20.59%) Senior
4 6 (17.65%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) Design Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Lead
7 2 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Network Security Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Network Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Security Architect
8 1 (2.94%) Lead Architect
8 1 (2.94%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Jinja
2 1 (2.94%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.94%) eBPF
2 1 (2.94%) gRPC
2 1 (2.94%) NETCONF
2 1 (2.94%) REST
2 1 (2.94%) RESTCONF
2 1 (2.94%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 14 (41.18%) Data Centre
2 5 (14.71%) PKI
3 3 (8.82%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.88%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.94%) CMDB
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Windows
3 2 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.59%) Change Control
2 5 (14.71%) Change Management
2 5 (14.71%) DevOps
2 5 (14.71%) Low Latency
2 5 (14.71%) Migration
2 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (11.76%) Agile
3 4 (11.76%) Business Case
3 4 (11.76%) Data Protection
3 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (11.76%) ITIL
3 4 (11.76%) Network Design
3 4 (11.76%) Runbook
3 4 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (11.76%) TOGAF
4 3 (8.82%) High Availability
4 3 (8.82%) Observability
4 3 (8.82%) Project Delivery
4 3 (8.82%) Security Architecture
4 3 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) C
2 1 (2.94%) Perl
2 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (47.06%) CCNP
3 7 (20.59%) JNCIE
4 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
5 4 (11.76%) JNCIP
6 3 (8.82%) CCSE
7 2 (5.88%) CCIE Data Center
8 1 (2.94%) CCDE
8 1 (2.94%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 1 (2.94%) CCIE Security
8 1 (2.94%) CCNA
8 1 (2.94%) CISSP
8 1 (2.94%) Degree
8 1 (2.94%) JNCIS
8 1 (2.94%) MCITP
8 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.94%) VCAP
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.94%) Docker
3 1 (2.94%) KVM
3 1 (2.94%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (52.94%) Ansible
2 7 (20.59%) Terraform
3 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.94%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 21 (61.76%) Cisco
2 13 (38.24%) Arista
3 9 (26.47%) Fortinet
4 6 (17.65%) Juniper
4 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 5 (14.71%) CheckPoint
5 5 (14.71%) Ericsson
5 5 (14.71%) F5
5 5 (14.71%) VMware
6 3 (8.82%) Palo Alto
6 3 (8.82%) Remedy
6 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow
6 3 (8.82%) Zscaler
7 2 (5.88%) NVIDIA
7 2 (5.88%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.94%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (2.94%) McAfee
8 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.94%) Splunk
8 1 (2.94%) Wind River